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[Vel's video feed comes on to show her in her dorm room, leaning back in her chair and fiddling with a rather abused old-school My Little Pony. She's looking rather intensely thoughtful.]

Okay, so everyone's aware of the shit that's gone down the last few days, right? Lotta bad publicity for the mutant set t'say the least. And it got me thinking. I get the whole idea of the Xmen is to be heroes, and combat villains and all that fun stuff, but that doesn't make people like mutants. Fights are scary when you're not involved, even if one side's technically the 'good guys'. 'Specially if property damage starts happening. Normal folk don't care if the good guys win if it means the store that's their livelyhood gets bashed all to pieces. Y'know?

So like I said, I've been thinking. Normal folks think mutants are scary and stuff 'cause the news is all about stuff like the bombing in London and such. And I know the news only reports on bad stuff, but still. I think there needs to be... like a web series or something highlighting mutants being non-threatening. Mutants with less scary powers showing off what they can do.

[She gives a rueful smile and sets the pony on the desk in front of her, where it starts to gallop and jump around.]

And mutants using their powers for... like unthreatening good stuff that normals can relate to. Y'know, putting out fires, rescuing kittens, stuff like that.

Or maybe I'm just totally off base and should shut up and just finish my homework.